WD2500AAKS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500AAKS-22L6A0 Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500AAKS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500AAKS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500AAKS
- Disk Family: Caviar Blue
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 1
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1055 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 7.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.2 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500AAKS Hard Drives:
- WD2500AAKS-60B3A0, DCM HGNNNT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-60L9A0, DCM HHRNNT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, DCM HHRCNVJAG, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VYA0, DCM EHNNNT2CHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM HGNCNV2AG, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00SBA0, DCM HBNCNV2CAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM DGNNHT2EAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM HGNNNT2CA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, DCM HHNCHVJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VYA0, DCM HHRNHTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00L9A0, DCM EARNNTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00SBA0, DCM HARCHV2MAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, DCM HHNCNVJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, DCM HGRCHV2CG, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00SBA0, DCM HHNCHAJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM HGNNNV2CB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00L9A0, DCM HANNHTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-60L9A1, DCM DANNHT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM EHNNNT2AH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00SBA0, DCM HANCHVJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, DCM EARCHV2CB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-61L9A0, DCM DGNNNTJAGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, DCM HGNNHV2AA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-00L9A0, DCM DARNHT2CH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500AAKS-22B3A0, DCM HGNNHTJAGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500AAKS Failure Symptoms:
- Electrical Failure Symptoms:
Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize; - Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
Clicking, grinding sounds;
Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
“music” tone as the disk is powered up; - Logical Failure Examples:
Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more. - Firmware Failure Symptoms:
drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
Drive freezes during booting up; - Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
Unable to access folders or files which could be seen; - Complex Failure Model
Western Digital WD2500AAKS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500AAKS Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple PCB Number revisions:
2060-771640-005, 2060-701590-001, 2060-701335-005, 2060-701537-002, 2060-701292-001, 2060-771640-002, 2060-701537-003, 2060-771640-003, 2060-701590-000, 2060-701444-001, 2060-701444-003, 2060-701537-004, 2060-701640-002, 2060-701444-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500AAKS-60L9A1, WD2500AAKS-61L9A0, WD2500AAKS-60B3A0, WD2500AAKS-60SBA0, WD2500AAKS-402AA0, WD2500AAKS-60VYA0, WD2500AAKS-22B3A0, WD2500AAKS-00VSA0, WD2500AAKS-60L9A0, WD2500AAKS-00V6A0, WD2500AAKS-00L6A0, WD2500AAKS-00WWPA0, WD2500AAKS-00L9A0, WD2500AAKS-60VYA1, WD2500AAKS-00SBA0, WD2500AAKS-00F0A0, WD2500AAKS-00UU3A0, WD2500AAKS-00VYA0, WD2500AAKS-00B3A0, etc.